Kiera Thompson

Memoir Reflection

English 101-013

Reflection

This time around it wasn’t so easy for me to write this paper. I ran into multiple situations

where I had writers block but it didn’t stop me from completion. My memoir was about how I

chose to focus on Neonatology as a career and what events led up to that decision, The title:

Surviving the NICU. Which should of been: Surviving this paper! Anyways, what led me to write

this specific paper would be having completely clueless feeling on what to do. I was stumped, I

had nothing to think of, a story before high school?!? I was worried, but After receiving the

assignment I was able to sit back and think about what major decision I have made for myself?

So I decided on a topic and from there I was able to stretch my work throughout the duration of

time we had to finish. So everyday is write just a little more until I finished. Writing this paper

was not a single act with the help of my mom and reading her journals I was able to scale down

the time frames into month categories and adding my point of view as I write and remember

those exact instances. Although my mom was in the hospital she would FaceTime me everyday

and we’d go over her journals about the NICU, there was so much information I had to scale it

down just so I wouldn’t surpass the word count! I was halfway through and then it came time for

peer review and conferences. Conferences came first and mind went surprisingly well. There

were some things to correct and edit out in the paper but the structure and the flow so far was

good. I felt relieved, I was so stressed I put the paper down for days after that. It came closer to

the due date and peer review approaching I began to stress again! Surprisingly the paper I had

put down and was so frustrated about wasn’t that bad. Being that my classmates also felt my

paper was going good gave me an ounce of motivation, and with that out I edited the parts

needing assistance and finished the paper. It was a drag but I made it to the end, but I was still
so unsure about it even though I had everyone giving me great feedback. What shook me even

more we had to analyze our own paper! It shook me because we ourselves can be our biggest

downfall, I’m so hard on myself, I have high expectations and there is NO room for failure. I

proceeded to grading my own paper and it wasn’t that bad, I can say I’m a tad bit dramatic but

it’s ok.

Compared to my Letter it was a much harder execution plan in place. Although it was

easier to write the letter I pretty much went about both papers the same way. For future writing I

hope it will be a little easier but everything in life isn’t easy. When given a New Assignment to

write I won’t easily get disappointed in my work, ill keep trying to push through the frustration

because ultimately i know i'm a pretty good writer. To improve my writing, I want to be able to

free write more frequently making it easier for me to complete the prompts, also it’ll strengthen

my writing skills to ultimately receive an A.